79 entries in Thimble / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
C. O. Williams Improved Thimble Holder
1903 512
Jean Hugard Technical Terms Explains thimble terms: thumb-palm, finger-palm, second finger-palm, back-palm, palm, finger-clip, steal, holder, acquitment
1936 3
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm to Thumb-Palm Using Second Finger Hand-to-hand transfer
1936 15
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm in Right Hand Hand-to-hand transfer
1936 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm to Back of Wrist Hand-to-hand transfer
1936 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Right Little Finger Hand to hand transfer
1936 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From the Thumb Hand to hand transfer
1936 17
Jean Hugard Acquitments - Thumb-Palm to Thumb-Palm Using Left Thumb Hand to hand transfer
1936 17
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Little Finger to Finger-Palm Hand to hand transfer
1936 18
Jean Hugard Acquitments - For Two Thimbles At Once Transferring two thimbles from hand to hand
1936 18
Jean Hugard Vest Acquitment - Vest Vanish From Little Finger
1936 19
Jean Hugard Vest Acquitment - Vest Vanish Using the Thumb
1936 19
Jean Hugard P L O P Way to make a "popping" sound (like a cork from a wine bottle) when removing thimble from finger
1936 26
Jean Hugard Amputation Apparently remove thumb, with thimble as extra convincer
1936 27
Jean Hugard The Elastic Finger Stretch forefinger with thimble as convincer
1936 27
Jean Hugard 3 - Apparatus Tricks Four thimbles vanish from performer's hand, appear at a model hand a distance away
1936 39
Jean Hugard 4 - Liaison Trick Transition from thimble routine to billiard ball, with thimble transforming into billiard ball balancing on fingertip
1936 39
Edward Victor A New and Original Thimble Holder
1937 71
Thimble and Trumpet thimble blown through toy trumpet
1937 31
Laurie Ireland Thimble Holder on the Trouser Pocket
1938
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1938)
11
Thimbles - Sleeving about using sleeving in a thimble routine
1939 109
Laurie Ireland Manipulative Dollar thimble for little finger glued to coin
1940
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940)
16
Eddie Joseph The Thimbles & Dice three thimbles of different colors, small die put under one and jumps around in a monte routine
1941 21
Milbourne Christopher Thimble Holder on pen
Apr. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 11)
210
Milton Borger Thimble Telepathy five different colored thimbles, chosen one is divined and others vanish
Also published here June 1948 429
Jack Yeager Spirit Tears water produced from thimble
1949
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1949)
28
Frank Csuri Frank Csuri Tips thimble or ball holder
Aug./Sep. 1949
Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 11 & 12)
10
Dr. William Weyeneth Ein unfehlbarer Fingerhuthalter design for thimble holder
1949
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 10 No. 1)
4
Chester Dobski Thimble Magic
  • Flourish with a Playing Card
Aug. 1950 693
Eddie Joseph Thimble and Coin coin and thimble transposition
1952 28
Lewis Ganson Thimble Manipulation on thimble manipulation
  • 1. They are too Small to be Seen from a Stage
  • 2. Thimbles are not usually Associated with a Male
  • 3. There is too much Repetition in the Routines usually seen
Also published here 1952 21
Wilfred Bader Alternative Presentations of thimble routine
  • Concert or Cabaret
  • Children
1952 34
Wilfred Bader Levitation thimble floats, thread
Also published here 1952 35
Jardine Ellis Jardine Ellis Wineglass Production with vanishing thimble
1953 40
Harold Blump The Back of Blumps Hand joke thimble trick
1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 307 Spoof Issue)
2
John Murray Thimble Snake mini snake rises from thimble with miniature selection, inspired by an idea with static electricity by C. B. Yohe
Inspired by June 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 309)
34
Geoffrey Buckingham, Ethel Buckingham A New and Novel Thimble Routine routine, including the "Buckingham" multiple silk penetration
1957
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1957)
27
Dr. Stanley Jaks Dr. Jaks Fingerhutmysterium six thimbles covering six objects, performer knows which thimble was lifted
Also published here 1961 160
Magische Tips tips on
  • Yoghurt-Becher (on using yoghurt cups instead of glasses(
  • Glasperlenspiel (pearls in glass chaos & order)
  • removing thumb, with thimble
1961
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 22 No. 4)
93
Wilf. Huggins Why Not? shell game with three thimbles
1970
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)
64
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Thimble Palm No. 168, three notes without details
1972 42
Patrick Page Thimble Holders
1976 153
Bill Tarr Thimbles intro
1976 157
Thimble Gimmicks
  • Giant Thimbles
  • Holders
1976 159
Mike Caveney Thimble Holders
1981 118
Mike Caveney Temporary Parking Zone
1981 119
Fingerhuttricks intro
Oct. 1982
Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3)
87
Hen Fetsch Die Fingerhutspitze secret inner nesting thimble for
  • threading a button
  • thread restoration
  • cigarette vanish in thimble
Oct. 1982
Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3)
87
Hen Fetsch Eine kleine Durchdringungsroutine bottom smaller coin penetrates to top under thimble
Oct. 1982
Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3)
88
Fingerhüte five impromptu magic items and gags with thimbles
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
121
Karrell Fox "Foxy" Thimble Holders
1991 149
T. Page Wright Chapter 2 - Thimble Magic intro
1991 50
Lewis Ganson Fingerhut-Manipulation on thimble manipulation
Also published here June 1993
Intermagic (Vol. 18 No. 1)
6
Wilfred Bader Das Fingerhut-Schweben thimble floats, thread
Also published here June 1993
Intermagic (Vol. 18 No. 1)
20
Jörg Willich Dumm Gelaufen bandage travels from finger to finger and vanishes
1996 10
Steve Beam Introduction
1997 13
Steve Beam The Care & Feeding of Thimbles
1997 19
Steve Beam A Word about Words "One Man's War With Presentation"
on presentation and presenting thimble magic
1997 20
Warren Wiersbe First Rule of Thimble Manipulation
Also published here
  • Tantalizing Thimbles, 1948
1997 29
The Vacuum plop sound effect
1997 34
Steve Beam Thimbles - It's an Attitude Thing on thimble magic
1997 35
On Thimble Climaxes jumbo thimble, metal jumbo thimble for cups & balls transition
1997 98
Steve Beam Gimmicks on thimble gimmicks
1997 141
Joe Mogar Hanging Around combining magnets and thimble magic
1997 146
Joe Mogar Thimbles Lite thimble glows on command
1997 147
Joe Mogar Holding Your Own holders and body loads
  • Holder #1
  • Holder #2
  • Holder #3
1997 148
Joe Mogar Shell Shocked thimble shell, eight-thimble production
1997 150
Steve Beam Fingered gag, rubber finger production from thimble
1997 166
Steve Beam Sound Effect plop sound with thimble
1997 175
Steve Beam Feedback sound effect ideas for thimbles
1997 182
Steve Beam Sleeving
1997 187
Joe Mogar Sleeving Thimbles - A Primer
  • Sleeving From The First Finger
  • Sleeving From The Second Finger
  • Multiple Vanish from the Second Finger
  • Producing from the Sleeve
1997 188
Steve Beam The Complete History of Thimble Magic "(Revised, and the revised again.)"
1997 207
Steve Beam Thimble Magic - Suggested Reading
  • Books on Thimble Magic
  • Thimble Magic Within Books
1997 217
John Ramsay, Edward Victor Popping Sound with Thimble
2002 354
Charlie Frye Coffee Related Note using empty creamers as thimbles
Nov. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 3)
118
Bob Ostin The Thimble Box thimble vanishes and appears in wooden box
2005 116
Billy McComb, Patrick Page Billy's Thimble while doing a thimble routine, an extra finger appears
Inspired by 2011 291
Dr. Stanley Jaks Thimbleometry six thimbles covering six objects, performer knows which thimble was lifted
Also published here 2014 234